Former Wildcat editor slams Giffords ad
 Gabrielle Giffords’ busted ad Photo taken from Arizona Daily Star article |
Former Wildcat editor Daniel Scarpinato may have been accused as being part of some liberal conspiracy to kill public democracy. I think he’s just being a good journalist.
His latest furor-raising article is an investigation over Arizona District 8 U.S. House candidate Gabrielle Giffords’ latest television ad, entitled ‘Blocked.’ (video)
Giffords claims that she blocked a late-night "vote" to cut health-care funding while serving in the Arizona State Senate. Not only was it not actually dark outside, as Scarpinato’s look into U.S. Naval Observatory data shows, but it wasn’t actually a vote. Rather, it was a quorum call. Moreover, Giffords was absent when she could have cast a vote to kill the move.
The Star’s editorial board agrees, too. Major kudos.
Update: Wizbang has picked up on the story. I definitely want to see this go national for a little while; Giffords deserves some negative blogosphere attention.
Even a Democratic commenter on the post at Wizbang! Politics expressed concerns about Giffords’ integrity.
I’d go beyond that, as if evidence of lack of integrity were not enough: to lie so blatantly, about something so easily checked, shows a complete lack of judgement as well as character.
With such poor character and judgement, Giffords shouldn’t be running for Congress. She seems more qualified to be a CBS executive.
Comment by Jim Addison — August 11, 2006 @ 12:49 am